Friday, November 30, 2012

You can't parse HTML with regex...

You can't parse HTML with regex...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4683046/regular-expression-for-extracting-script-tags


...and if you do, someone will write some poem of poetic beauty quality:


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Can your RDBMS do a convenient audit trail?

Can your RDBMS do this?

create table person
(
 person_id serial not null primary key,
 lastname text not null,
 firstname text not null,
 nickname text null,
 favorite_number int null
);


insert into person(lastname,firstname,nickname, favorite_number) values
('lennon','john winston','john',default),
('mccartney','james paul','paul',default),
('harrison','george',default,default),
('starr','richard','ringo', 10);

select skeys(hstore(p.*)) as field, svals(hstore(p.*)) as value from person p;



Output:

      field      |    value     
-----------------+--------------
 lastname        | lennon
 nickname        | john
 firstname       | john winston
 person_id       | 2
 favorite_number | 
 lastname        | mccartney
 nickname        | paul
 firstname       | james paul
 person_id       | 3
 favorite_number | 
 lastname        | harrison
 nickname        | 
 firstname       | george
 person_id       | 4
 favorite_number | 
 lastname        | starr
 nickname        | ringo
 firstname       | richard
 person_id       | 5
 favorite_number | 10
(20 rows)

hstore can be used as a convenient mechanism for audit trail

http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!1/d5729/1


Saturday, November 24, 2012

Detect kissing and overlapping points in Highcharts

formatter: function() {
    
   // console.log(this);

   // Michael Buen is here                    
 
 var search = this.series.chart.series[0].data;

 var a = this.point;

 var overlapCount = 0;                    
 for(var i in search) {
        
  var b = search[i];
  var d = getDistance(a, b);
  
  // choose an overlap threshold
  var kiss = 5 * 2;
  var halfOverlap = 5;
  var fullOverlap = 2.5; 
  if (d <= kiss) {
   ++overlapCount;
  }
        
 }
 
      
 return this.x +' cm, '+ this.y +' kg' + a.plotX + ' <br/><b>Overlaps:</b> ' + overlapCount;
}



function getDistance(point1,point2)
{
  var xs = 0;
  var ys = 0;
  xs = point2.plotX - point1.plotX;
  xs = xs * xs;
  ys = point2.plotY - point1.plotY;
  ys = ys * ys;
  return Math.sqrt( xs + ys );
}



Live code: http://jsfiddle.net/HxTjK/